Form 990 for tax year 2022

Totals

Total revenue

$3,483,602

Total expenses

$4,110,184

Contributions and grants received

$3,465,865

Grants paid

$1,000

Program service revenue

$0

Investment income

$3,783

Other revenue

$13,954

Total assets, end of year

$19,302,186

Total liabilities, end of year

$1,697,281

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$17,604,905

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$3,121,384

Management and general expenses

$580,545

Fundraising expenses

$408,255

Program service expenses (Part III)

$3,121,384

Program services were 75.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Mission and programs · 2022

• OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN (QUALITY EDUCATION AND SCHOOLHOUSE TO JAILHOUSE) WE ARE LEADERS OF THE POLICE FREE SCHOOLS NATIONAL CAMPAIGN WORKING TO DISMANTLE THE SCHOOL POLICING INFRASTRUCTURE AND ELIMINATE THE SCHOOL-TO-PRISON PIPELINE; AND, WE FIGHT FOR LIBERATORY EDUCATION BY WORKING TO END THE DISMANTLING, DEFUNDING, AND PRIVATIZATION OF K-12 PUBLIC SCHOOLS. FOLLOWING TWO YEARS IN WHICH DOZENS OF SCHOOL DISTRICTS ACROSS THE COUNTRY MADE COMMITMENTS TO REMOVE POLICE FROM SCHOOLS, 2022 SAW A DRAMATIC BACKLASH, AS STUDENTS RETURNED TO SCHOOL FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE THE COVID-19 QUARANTINE. IN AUGUST, WE CONVENED THE POLICE FREE SCHOOLS CAMPAIGN IN CHICAGO, COINCIDING WITH THE FIVE-YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THE CAMPAIGN. THIS SPRING WE RELEASED A NEW TOOLKIT TO SUPPORT PARTNERS WHO WISH TO FILE COMPLAINTS ABOUT THE HARMS SCHOOL POLICE OFFICERS INFLICT ON STUDENTS. ADDITIONALLY, IN DECEMBER 2022, WE RELEASED A NEW RESEARCH BRIEF, #ASSAULTATSPRINGVALLEY: AN ANALYSIS OF POLICE VIOLENCE AGAINST BLACK AND LATINE STUDENTS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS, PROVIDING DATA ANALYSIS OF THESE POLICE ASSAULTS ON STUDENTS AND PAINTING A CLEAR PICTURE OF HOW SCHOOL POLICING JEOPARDIZES THE PHYSICAL SAFETY AND HEALTH OF BLACK AND LATINE STUDENTS, GIRLS, STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES, AND STUDENTS ATTENDING PREDOMINATELY LOW-INCOME SCHOOLS.

  Expenses $693,151

• POWER & DEMOCRACY (RIGHT TO VOTE AND VOTER PROTECTION)ADVANCEMENT PROJECT'S POWER & DEMOCRACY PROGRAM GROUNDS ITS WORK IN OUR MISSION: TO FULFILL AMERICA'S PROMISE OF A CARING, INCLUSIVE, AND JUST DEMOCRACY. WE ARE WORKING AT THE NATIONAL, STATE, AND LOCAL LEVELS TO PROTECT AND EXPAND ACCESS TO VOTING. WE PROTECT VOTERS' RIGHT TO EXERCISE THEIR POWER AT THE POLLS BY COMBATTING VOTER SUPPRESSION AND INCREASING VOTER ENGAGEMENT ACROSS THE COUNTRY; AND, WE EXPAND THE ELECTORATE BY FIGHTING FOR THE AFFIRMATIVE RIGHT TO VOTE FOR ALL CITIZENS AND RESTORING THE RIGHT TO VOTE FOR FORMERLY INCARCERATED INDIVIDUALS AND IMPACTED COMMUNITIES. THIS YEAR, WE CONTINUED OUR LITIGATION IN FLORIDA AND GEORGIA CONFRONTING THE BARRIERS THEY ERECTED TO PREVENT PEOPLE FROM EXERCISING THEIR RIGHT TO VOTE. TO SUPPORT OUR STATE-BASED PARTNERS DURING THE 2022 MIDTERM ELECTIONS ADVANCEMENT PROJECT STAFF TRAVELED TO GEORGIA, FLORIDA, AND VIRGINIA. STAFF WORKED WITH STATE-BASED PARTNERS TO ANSWER CALLS ACROSS THE STATES ON ELECTION DAY.

  Expenses $938,660

• JUSTICE PROJECTWE ARE BUILDING POWER TO DECARCERATE AND DECRIMINALIZE COMMUNITIES OF COLOR, ADVANCING THE ABILITY OF BLACK AND HISTORICALLY OPPRESSED PEOPLE TO DETERMINE WHAT THEY NEED FOR SAFE, STABLE, HEALTHY, AND FREE COMMUNITIES. THE SUMMER OF 2022 WAS THE SECOND ANNIVERSARY OF THE HISTORIC UPRISING IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE TRAGIC MURDERS OF GEORGE FLOYD AND BREONNA TAYLOR. COMMUNITIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY WERE MUCH MORE RECEPTIVE TO PROGRESSIVE, REFORM-MINDED PROSECUTORS AND DEFUND THE POLICE CAMPAIGNS. TO SUPPORT THIS, THIS YEAR WE CONTINUED PREPARING OUR SECOND COHORT IN DC OF THE POLICE ABUSE LITIGATION CORP (PALC) AS PART OF THE POLICING PROJECT, A NATIONAL COLLABORATIVE TO PROVIDE INFRASTRUCTURE AND TRAINING FOR BLACK AND BROWN LAWYERS WHO WANT TO CHALLENGE POLICING, THOSE WHO COLLABORATE WITH THEM, AND THOSE WHO FUND THEM. OVER THE PAST YEAR, WE HAVE CONTINUED OUR WORK WITH EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH PRISON REFORM COALITION (EBRPPRC), FOCUSING ON THEIR ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND CAMPAIGNS DEVELOPMENT. IN 2022, WE PROVIDED SUPPORT AS THEY PARTNERED WITH VOICES OF THE EXPERIENCED, FAIR FIGHT INITIATIVE, THE BAIL PROJECT, PROMISES OF JUSTICE INITIATIVE, AND ROBERT F. KENNEDY HUMAN RIGHTS TO FOUND THE FREEDOM CAMPAIGN, A GRASSROOTS CAMPAIGN TO DEPOPULATE AND SHUT DOWN THE EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH PRISON

  Expenses $605,400

• COMMUNICATIONSON OCTOBER 22ND, ADVANCEMENT PROJECT RELEASED FINDINGS FROM A MULTI-STATE POLL AND FOCUS GROUPS OF GEN Z VOTERS OF COLOR (BLACK, LATINE, INDIGENOUS, AND ASIAN AMERICAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER) IN MICHIGAN, FLORIDA, GEORGIA, AND VIRGINIA. WE RELEASED OUR FINDINGS AT A PRESS CONFERENCE WE ORGANIZED THAT INCLUDED LEADING RACIAL JUSTICE GROUPS NAACP, UNIDOSUS, NATIONAL CONGRESS OF AMERICAN INDIANS, AND ASIAN & PACIFIC ISLANDER AMERICAN HEALTH FORUM. ON JUNE 6TH, WE LAUNCHED HOW COPS GET OFF, A THREE-PART ANIMATED VIDEO SERIES NARRATED BY OUR BOARD MEMBER JESSE WILLIAMS THAT BREAKS DOWN A MAJOR STRUCTURE IN OUR CULTURE AND LAWS THAT KEEP COPS IN POWER AND UNACCOUNTABLE. WE ALSO CREATED A TOOLKIT TO HELP OUR PARTNERS AND SUPPORTERS JOIN THE CAMPAIGN AND PROMOTE THE VIDEOS ON THEIR OWN SOCIAL MEDIA CHANNELS.

  Expenses $642,084

• FORMATIONWE BELIEVE THAT IMPACTED PEOPLE MUST BE AT THE FOREFRONT OF CHANGE-- THEY MUST SET THE AGENDA TO MEET THE NEEDS OF THEIR INDIVIDUAL COMMUNITIES-- AND THAT CHANGE CAN ONLY BE CREATED BY BUILDING POWER AT THE GRASSROOTS TO TRANSFORM SYSTEMS. WE KNOW THAT POWER STARTS AT THE COMMUNITY LEVEL, IT IS ACCOUNTABLE TO LOCAL POWER, AND IT IS KEY TO MAKING REAL AND SUSTAINABLE CHANGE. WE DO THIS THROUGH OUR FORMATION NETWORK OF GRASSROOTS ORGANIZATIONS FOCUSED ON RACIAL JUSTICE.

  Expenses $129,614

• GENERAL PROGRAMSOUR PROJECTS AND PROGRAMMATIC WORK CENTER ON ISSUES THAT ARE ENTRY POINTS FOR COMMUNITIES OF COLOR TO TRANSFORM RACIST SYSTEMS AND INSTITUTIONS AND HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE. OUR CORE PROGRAMS ARE POWER & DEMOCRACY, OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN, AND JUSTICE PROJECT.

  Expenses $48,673 · Grants $1,000

• FELLOWSHIPSIN 2022, WE HAD FELLOWS IN MANY OF OUR PROGRAMS. THEY FOCUSED ON OUR CRIMINAL JUSTICE WORK SPECIFICALLY AROUND POLICE AND GENDER VIOLENCE AND POLICE CONTRACTS. WE ALSO HAD A FELLOW WORKING ON THE RIGHT TO EDUCATION INCLUDING A HISTORICAL TIMELINE AND SUPPORT FOR LITIGATION.

  Expenses $44,489

• IMMIGRATIONOUR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE PROGRAM CHALLENGES POLICIES THAT CRIMINALIZE MIGRATION. WE FOCUS ON A MULTI-RACIAL APPROACH, PUSHING FOR REFORM THAT RECOGNIZES THE HUMANITY AND DIGNITY OF ALL IMMIGRANTS.

  Expenses $19,313

As filed on the 2022 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

• BILL LANN LEE

  PRESIDENT

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  1

• STEPHEN ENGLISH

  SECRETARY/TREASURER

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  1

• ASH-LEE HENDERSON

  BOARD CHAIR

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  1

• JOSE JOE ALVAREZ

  BOARD MEMBER

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  1

• MONICA CLARK

  BOARD MEMBER

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  1

• ARLENE HOLT-BAKER

  BOARD MEMBER

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  1

• DANIEL LEON-DAVIS

  BOARD MEMBER

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  1

• UZOMA NKOWNTA

  BOARD MEMBER

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  1

• PROF FRANITA TOLSON

  BOARD MEMBER

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  1

• JESSE WILLIAMS

  BOARD MEMBER

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  1

• NAT CHIOKE WILLIAMS

  BOARD MEMBER

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  1

• THOMASINA WILLIAMS

  BOARD MEMBER

  Total calculated

  $0

  Hours/week

  1

• JUDITH BROWNE DIANIS

  EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

  Total calculated

  $125,817

  From this org

  $114,272

  From related orgs

  $0

  Other

  $11,545

  Hours/week

  40

• GIOVANNI COZZARELLI

  CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

  Total calculated

  $85,716

  From this org

  $76,505

  From related orgs

  $0

  Other

  $9,211

  Hours/week

  40

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Related organizations on this return

Schedule R Part II: tax-exempt organizations related to the filer by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

• ADVANCEMENT PROJECT ACTION FUND

  501(C)(4) · PROMOTES SOCIAL WELFARE · DC · controlled entity

  Directly controlled by ADVANCEMENT PROJECT EDUCATION FUND

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2022

Filed

13 November 2023

IRS schema version

2022v5.0

Source object

202333189349310388

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